Buford

Hydro power plant · Forsyth County, Georgia

Nameplate capacity
131 MW
Rank in Georgia
#53
of 264 plants
In service since
2003
December 2003

Details

Primary fuel
Hydro
Technology
Conventional Hydroelectric
Operator
USCE-Mobile District
County
Forsyth County
Generating units
3
Share of state capacity
0.30%
Rank among hydro plants in Georgia
#7 of 30
EIA plant code
759

Generating units

Individual generating units at Buford
UnitTechnologyNameplateSummerOnlineStatus
1AConventional Hydroelectric62 MW60 MW2003Operating
2AConventional Hydroelectric62 MW60 MW2004Operating
3AConventional Hydroelectric7.2 MW6.8 MW2005Operating

Nameplate is the maximum rated output; summer capacity is what the unit can reliably deliver on a hot day, which is typically lower.

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About this data

From EIA’s inventory of operable generators, May 2026 release. Capacity is nameplate — the maximum rated output of the equipment, not what the plant actually generates over a year, which depends on how often it runs. A 131 MW solar plant and a 131 MW nuclear plant have the same entry here and produce very different amounts of electricity.

“In service since” is the earliest in-service date among the units still listed, so a site rebuilt around newer equipment can read as younger than the site itself. All Georgia power plants · What Georgia actually generates